[PyQt] ANN: PyQt v4.8 and SIP v4.11.2 Released

[Phil Thompson]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:26:28 -0700, TP <wingusr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>> PyQt v4.8 and SIP v4.11.2 have been released and are available from the
>> usual places.
>>
>> The highlight of the release is full support for Qt v4.7.
>>
>> The Windows installers now contain a custom build of Qt using the MSVC
>> 2008 compiler instead of using extracts from the Nokia supplied
>> installer.
>> This means that OpenSSL is fully supported and the installers
themselves
>> are significantly smaller.
>>
>> Phil
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> 
> In looking at http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/news/pyqt-48, I see
> the following statement:
> 
>    "The QtAssistant module is no longer built with Qt v4.7 and later."
> 
> I looked around the mailing list and didn't see any discussion of why
> that is. What is the recommended way of connecting PyQt apps with
> context-sensitive help?

It has been deprecated for a long time and is no longer included in Qt.

Use the QtHelp module instead.

Phil